Leon Settle Hometown: Los Angeles, Calif. Last College: Arkansas-Little Rock Position: Assistant Coach - Sprints

Leon Settle has served as an assistant coach in sprints, jumps and relays at UTEP for two seasons.

While at UTEP, Settle has mentored one Olympic qualifier, three IAAF World Championships qualifiers, two NCAA Championships qualifiers, 10 NCAA Preliminary qualifiers, five Conference USA Champions and one C-USA Freshman of the Meet.

Settle also coached the 4x400m relay team that posted a time of 3:11.64 breaking the C-USA meet record that was set in 2003.

At UTEP, Settle is the meet director for the UTEP Springtime and UTEP Invitational home meets.

Prior to UTEP, Settle spent three years as an assistant coach at the University of New Mexico. During his time with the Lobos, he trained Deanna Young, who became the first woman indoor All-American in program history.

At UNM, he produced three All-Americans, 16 regional qualifiers and five USA track and field senior and junior national participants. Settle led his student-athletes to set 11 school records. Settle helped lead the Lobos' men's team to an eighth-place finish at the 2010 NCAA Indoor Championships.

Settle coached for two seasons at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where he served as an assistant coach for sprints, jumps, hurdles and cross country. While at UALR, Settle mentored one All-American, three NCAA Championships qualifiers, four Sun Belt Champions and five regional qualifying marks.

Settle served as a volunteer coach for UTEP during the 2000-2004 school year under head coach Bob Kitchens.

Settle received his masters degree in 2010 in Exercise Science and graduated in 1999 with a bachelor's degree in Health Education with an emphasis on Health Community Problems from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Settle also received his associate degree in 1996 in Physical Education from Long Beach City College.

As a student-athlete, Settle set four school records, including the indoor 400m, 4x100m relay and 4x400m relay. As a Trojan, Settle was an All-American, a two-time NCAA qualifier and a 10 time Sun Belt Champion. In 1998, he was named the Men's Sun Belt Outstanding Performer and the Men's Sun Belt Top Scorer becoming the only sprinter to win the 55m, 200m and 400m at the conference meet.

Settle competed on the professional athletics circuit for six years and competed at the USA track and field Olympic trials in 2000 and 2004. He was a USA Track and Field Indoor National finalist in the men's 200m in 1998 and 2000.

Settle is a USATF Long Distance Running Committee Border Association Member and is a USATF level one certified coach. Settle is an author of two publications: Developing Speed: A Neurological Approach and Contributing Variables to Acceleration and Max Velocity Performance.